Help with custom fields upgrade

Hi Lee,

Unfortunately, as you didn't strip the angle brackets "<" as "&lt;" and ">" as "&gt;" I cannot see your current coding.

However, assuming that your image custom field is EntryDataMyField, your coding should look like:

What you should include now is the inner "mt:EntryDataMyFieldAsset" loop ;)

Hi Mihai,
Sorry about that... Here is the code with angle brackets stripped off:

MT code:

 <fieldset class="plan_list">

	<legend> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryDataPlanName$></a> (<$MTEntryTitle$>) </legend>

	<table>

		<tr>

			<td rowspan="2" class="plan_pic">

			<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryDataThumbnailImage$></a></td>

			<td class="entry_body"><$MTEntryExcerpt$></td>

MT generated code for first “image”

 <fieldset class="plan_list">
	<legend> <a href="http://www.steele-marketing.biz/plans/000.php">Testing</a> (000) </legend>
	<table>
		<tr>
			<td rowspan="2" class="plan_pic"><a href="http://www.steele-marketing.biz/plans/000.php"><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.steele-marketing.biz/122/122-Thumb-100.jpg">View image</a></span></a></td>
			<td class="entry_body">a few words</td>

And MT generated code for second image

 <fieldset class="plan_list">
	<legend> <a href="http://www.steele-marketing.biz/plans/172005.php">Johnny Jumpup</a> (172.005) </legend>
	<table>
		<tr>
			<td rowspan="2" class="plan_pic"><a href="http://www.steele-marketing.biz/plans/172005.php"><img alt="172.005---thumbnail.jpg" src="http://www.artformhomeplans.com/172/172.005---thumbnail.jpg" width="100" height="70" class="mt-image-left" /></a></td>
			<td class="entry_body">open plan - laundry on 2nd - island kitchen - garage with bonus</td>

If all this is too messy you can download a Word doc with the code and the picture of the problem, at
http://www.steele-marketing.biz/download/cf_problem.doc .
You go to the website itself and click on expandables (ie, http://www.steele-marketing.biz/plans/expandables/ ) where the problem will be obvious (and you can "view source" too)

Thanks
Lee

I guess that instead of using an image custom field, in fact you are using a text single or multiple line field (textarea).

Is that the case?

Assuming that is the case, you have to extract the image URL.

I've coded a plugin for that in the past. Not sure if it works with MT v4.x (it was for v3.x).

Alternatively you could extract the image with the Brad Choate's Regex and EmbedImage plugins.

Hi Mihai, hmmm, this could be it. Yes, the image custom field is the text of its filename. This worked prior to the new custom fields.

Could you repost your first reply code? It didn't have the angle brackets stripped off either, so the code section is blank. I'd like to replace my code with yours to see it this fixes the problem.

Assuming this is the problem, why does the existing code work for images entered in prior versions of MT but not the new? I went through many records for many fields in many tables and cannot see a difference between an image entered in the old version and an image entered into the new version...

Actually, I checked again. The images fields are definately set to image custom fields, not text.

Is there a (perhaps new) MT parameter that says to embed an image or display a link to an image?

More info.
With original code that worked in 4.01:

 <$MTEntryDataThumbnailImage$>

I changed the code to

 <mt:EntryDataThumbnailImageAsset>

<img src="<mt:AssetURL />" />

</mt:EntryDataThumbnailImageAsset>

and now the new images display. BUT NOW THE OLD IMAGES DON'T...